G'day Nicholas, I managed to build xfs in a pretty kludged up way by checking out what the makefile does. I copied the source from my FreeBSD box and started "make World" up until where it is making the makefiles, then hit ^C.
Then I did "make -f xmakefile - --unix" for the following targets: Makefiles, clean, includes, depend. This only takes a few minutes and seems to leave the system in a state where I can cd into programs/xfs and just "make -f xmakefile - --unix". xfs built OK, but unfortunately it crashed in exactly the same manner as before. It (probably) wasn't the build method, since I compiled xeyes and it worked. On a whim I tried to build using gcc from mingw. That was just a mess and is well past the boundaries of my current knowledge. I need to do some serious reading before I can try anything else. I glanced over the cygwin X building web pages and at 3am its just too much to start thinking about. Besides, I have to prepare a talk for a conference that I am heading off to later today. At least I can use your executable on my laptop while I am away! Thanks, Greg
